Julia has undertaken extensive work with and within local communities to enable broader access to personal cultural heritage amongst marginalized, overlooked or disadvantaged areas and demographics.

Spanning fifteen years, Julia’s art practice and research sit across multiple strands. She has sought to improve inclusivity of knowledge production and reanimate disconnected or underdeveloped narratives and histories.

All of Julia’s solo, collaborative and community projects have had educational and participatory elements that seek to inspire and encourage creativity and deeper self-awareness through the arts.

Achill Island: Irish Journal, after Heinrich Böll

Introduction

A photographer and anthropologist, Julia Winckler works through layers of physical and cultural geography, history and memory, piecing together fragments that establish links between our collective past and present.

Julia has exhibited widely, including at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS (Retracing Heinrich Barth, 2008) and the Austrian Cultural Forum, London (Traces, 2012).

She is co-researcher on the SSHRC funded Children of the City: from street to playground (2013-2017), which mobilizes a collection of archival photographs of urban street scenes taken in Toronto at the turn of the last century and as part of this grant has co-curated an exhibition at City of Toronto Archives Gallery (2016-17), as well as Photographic Memories - Lost Corners of Paris: The Children of Cité Lesage-Bullourde opening on 8th March at the Alliance Française gallery in Toronto.

She works through layers of physical and cultural geography, history and memory, piecing together fragments that establish links between our collective past and present.

She is also an experienced arts facilitator, curriculum developer and lecturer.